Transforming Together: Implementation Guide
Transformative organizational leadership for interagency work is supported in California by a unique multi-agency document, the Integrated Core Practice Model Guide. This guide documents research-informed leadership behaviors that allow all partners to realize a more unified vision and act with joint accountability.
Through the survey, leaders from child- and youth-serving organizations rate the strength of their relationships with one another on a five-point scale, from co-exist to integrated. These ratings are used to conduct a network analysis and create a map that visually shows the connections between organizations. Lines represent relationships, and thicker, darker lines indicate stronger connections. This analysis provides insight into how strongly organizations collaborate, coordinate, or integrate in supporting children and youth behavioral health. Although responses are subjective and typically limited to the perceptions of a few (though ideally well- positioned) individuals within each entity, it helps start a conversation and illustrate the broader ecosystem that underpins CYBHI in California counties, highlighting opportunities to strengthen partnerships across sectors and build a more connected system of care for children, youth, and families.
Tool Spotlight : The activities to Establish Shared Understandings resource also offers facilitation exercises ILTs can use early in their work to build consensus on vision, clarify roles, and surface assumptions that may otherwise undermine collaboration and progress. Tool Spotlight : The Network and Ecosystem Experiences Survey (NEES) is a tool developed by Mathematica and the California Health & Human Services Agency (CalHHS) under the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI). It is designed to better understand how organizations within the child and youth behavioral health ecosystem connect and work together.
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